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Originally Posted by 350TacoZilla

Looking great man. A bolt in tunnel makes a big difference for access, makes me wish everything came with it from the factory.

Yeah forgot about the bolt in trans covers, that would be a good idea but actually we are just going to raise it up with fixed panel just give enough for the 4L80E

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So small update not much happening in the last couple of weeks but we did find out that engine mounts have built into them about 3 degrees of angle, this makes sense but we were just not thinking about it, so we were swapping the mounts from left to right to get the engine moved back where we wanted but ended up having to swap them back and cut them to get the best placement and keeping the 3 degrees angle, this also gives us a little more trans clearance than we had, we wont have to raise the floor but maybe 1/2" to give a little more insurance.

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Small update raised the floor about 1/2" to give more room for the trans.

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Not a lot to show a few little things the list of todo's is getting smaller.
mounted the gas pedal, fixed a bracket for the parking brake and had to cut out some of the frame stiffeners to get the trans cross member mounter, Next to fix a center point of the steering column for less fussing with it for easier reassembly. Next will be to weld up the pin holes on the patches in the floor and firewall, remove the cab and coat the bottom of the floor with lizard skin heat and insulation coating. I also want to put the coating inside the doors. I hope it doesn't add too much weight to them!

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Bottom of cab is prepared to be sprayed with heat shield and insulation.

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Inside doors coated with heat and insulation protection
Floor bottom coated with same top and bottom
A little more seam seal roof and bedsides a little clean up on the frame and protect it from overspray and next reassembly body to prepare for body work and paint